It's quite normal that the actual damage weighs in the sentence. Consider the following: someone speeds across an intersection, without paying attention to the

It's quite normal that the actual damage weighs in the sentence. Consider the following: someone speeds across an intersection, without paying attention to the traffic lights and right of way. Or the same, but a car is hit, and the driver of the other car is hurt. Or the driver and two little children die. Would it be reasonable to punish in the first case like in the latter, or vice versa?